Interesting Friday

I headed in to the office yesterday and we had a "Town Hall Meeting" with the corporate office.  It was basically your typical business meeting where they do a lot of talking and blowing smoke but they brought in an awesome motivational speaker at the end.  His name is Jeff Glasbrenner and he is a US Paralympic Medalist in wheelchair basketball.  Talk about an amazing person and an inspirational story!  He lost his leg at the age of 8 in a farming accident.  For the 30th anniversary of his accident he competed and completed 8 ironman competitions in 8 months!  I complain about running a mile - that is insane!  Really makes you stop and think and re-evaluate your life and your perspective.

After the meeting when I got back to the office I was chatting with Justin and he informed me that he was in a fender bender on the way in to work that morning.  First and foremost I am thankful that no one is hurt.  Second, it's about freaking time someone else in this family wrecks our cars besides me!!  I would post a picture of the car but I don't even think you can see the damage in the picture.  I have definitely done my fair share of wrecking up our cars.  They say most accidents happen within a few miles of your house...mine seem to all happen a few feet from the house in the driveway and garage area!  I have smacked the mirrors on our stupid garage doors more times then I can count.  I even managed to reverse the car out of the garage and back in into the Jetta which was parked right behind me...usually it is on the other side of the driveway and I blame Justin for not telling me he moved the car.  I think the best was last year when I was pulling in to the garage and thought "uh oh, I'm gonna smack the mirror again" so before doing that I put it in reverse.  Well I was at an angle and managed to rip the entire front bumper off of the car!! 

What a beauty!  My favorite part of the story is as I am getting out of the car to survey the damage - I originally thought I scraped the side of the car on the garage - Justin walks out of the house to get something out of the garage.  At the exact time we both see the bumper lying on the ground and all I can do is burst out laughing.  He just shook his head and walked back in the house.  I love him - I am married to the most patient man who loves me unconditionally - even if I wreck our cars doing bone-headed things :)

Shannon